Improvement in blower-stands



PURMORT BRADFORD.

Improvement in Blower Stands.

NO. 119,500, Patented Oct. 3, 1871.

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PURMOBT BRADFORD, on NEW HAVEN, oonnnorrour, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT & 00.,OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLOWER-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,500, dated October3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PURMoRT BRADFORD, of the city and county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Blower-Stand; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents, in

Figure 1, a front view 5 Fig.2, a side View; Fig. 3, a section online.10 m; Fig. 4, a section on line 3 3 and in Fig. 5 a perspective view ofthe parts as packed for transportation.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of thedevice known as blowerstand-that is, a device to support the blower of afire-grate when not in use; the object being to so construct the partsthat they may be easily separated and packed into a compact form fortransportation, as heretofore the parts were inseparable, and in packingeach stand makes a bulky package, liable to be broken and expensive totransport.

The two sides A B are made of substantially the same form, by preferenceexactly alike, so that one pattern may be used for both parts, and sothat when laid together, (one being reversed,) as seen in Fig. 5, onewill lie close down upon the other 5 yet, if desired, there may be noinconsiderable difference in the two and yet accomplish the object.Between the two sides a plate, G, is arranged which governs the relativepositions of the sides to each other. This plate may be connected orconstructed so as to retain its position by lugs or otherwise but Iprefer to form a transverse screw near each end, so as to set over thebolts or screws at. These bolts or screws should be used in any case.The two sides are set up and the screws inserted; but before the screwsare turned hard down the plate 0 is laid in onto the screws, as seen inFigs. 3 and 4:, then the screws driven home, binding the two sides andplate firmly together, and the whole is ready for use.

To pack as for transportation, remove the plate and screws and lay theparts together, as in Fig. 5, and a package is found little thicker thanthe two sides.

By this construction the parts when ready for use are as securely heldtogether as when riveted in the usual manner, and without the liabilityto become loosened, as in case of rivets; or, if loosened, they may beeasily brought to bearing again. And further, by this construction sixstands can be packed into the compass of a single stand of commonconstruction.

I claim- A blower-stand, consisting of the two sides A B and the plate(J, secured together and made detachable, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

PURMOBT- BRADFORD.

Witnesses G. W. BURDETT,

CHAS. L. BALDWIN. (51)

